Tori and Lokita

Name: Tori and Lokita
Genre: Drama
Released: March 24, 2023
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Alban Ukaj, Batiste Sornin, Charlotte De Bruyne, Claire Bodson, Marc Zinga

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Diaphana Films | Release Date: March 24, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Alban Ukaj, Batiste Sornin, Charlotte De Bruyne, Claire Bodson, Marc Zinga, Mbundu Joely, Nadège Ouedraogo, Pablo Schils, Tijmen Govaerts

Summary: In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the cruel conditions of their exile.

Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 88 min

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Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jul 15, 2023

Every action in this Cannes award-winner is motivated if not wholly rational. Every consequence grimly believable and shorn of artifice and melodrama. Read full review

Justin Chang

May 28, 2022

I think that the filmmakers’ pessimism is inseparable from their compassion and that their compassion is inseparable from their rage. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Mar 23, 2023

The precarity of the lives that the Dardennes explore give the stories feeling and tension while their directorial choices — including where they put the camera and how they situate characters in the world — give their work its characteristic ethical politics. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

May 26, 2022

This may be the Dardennes’ most emotionally engaging film in a while — a tragedy told with utter clarity, centered on protagonists entirely deserving of our sympathy, empathy, all the ‘pathies you’ve got. Read full review

Donald Clarke

Dec 2, 2022

The latest film from the Dardenne brothers, a heart-rending tale of misused immigrants in contemporary Belgium, arrives just two weeks after Frank Berry’s Aisha pondered similar misfortunes in Ireland. Both are roughly in the social-realist mode, but the tone and the perspectives are quite different. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Mar 24, 2023

Tori and Lokita is a film born of rage and frustration, and as such, it’s a moving one. But it’s fair to expect more than just rage from artists — especially our greatest and most empathetic ones. Read full review

Jake Cole

Mar 23, 2023

The film subjects its main characters to one indignity after another, and to such a suffocating degree that it crosses the line between representation and exploitation. Read full review

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chemicalE

May 8, 2023

A strong & bold piece of cinema,reminds me of 7 Prisoners. Although it grabs your attention for most of the part, it falters at times. I believe climax required some more work, but a promising piece of work, regardless.

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Mar 24, 2023

(Mauro Lanari)
Do you all remember the images of smugglers' trucks full of dead migrants? Disappeared from newspapers and television news. Chaplinian anthropology: "Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference" ("Monsieur Verdoux", 1947). "One death is a tragedy, a million is(Mauro Lanari)
Do you all remember the images of smugglers' trucks full of dead migrants? Disappeared from newspapers and television news. Chaplinian anthropology: "Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference" ("Monsieur Verdoux", 1947). "One death is a tragedy, a million is statistics" (misattributed to Stalin). The crime chronicle overflows with small little nefarious events with which perhaps someone still feels empathy, when then the number rises to the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th power, is transmuted into a cynical and cheating destiny. The Dardennes don't care and with their films they give to the beautiful souls of the red carpets what the confessional gives (gave) to the Christian Democrats: the opportunity of feeling cleansed to start again immediately after. Booed at Cannes, only 9 comments on IMDb, less than $600,000 in receipts. That's good: we can sing Branduardi's nursery rhyme with them.… Expand

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